As a developer of tools to simulate latency, many people ask us, “How can I reduce the latency?” We’re networking people, so to us, “latency” means network latency, the amount of time it takes a packet to cross the network from sender to...

At the beginning of this month, Apposite released a new model of WAN emulator, the Netropy 10G1. The 10G1 simulates one 10 Gbps link through one pair of 10 gig ports (or up to 15 lower speed links) in a 1U-sized system. The 10G2 is our third-generation 10 gig...

[The following posting is by Kazuo Yokosuka of Rikei Corp., a reseller of Apposite’s products in Japan.] こんにちは。株式会社 理経の横須賀です。Apposite Technologies社WANエミュレータの販売担当をしております。今回は、前回の記事でも予告した通り、ネットワークの世界における遅延について記事を書きたいと思います。長い文章になりますが、どうぞお付き合い下さい。...

On the long flight back to California from the IP Expo show in London, I made the mistake of watching the recent movie, American Reunion. Ironically, I missed my own high school reunion attending the show. (No, I’m not saying what year I graduated – my wife prohibits...

Original Article can be found here: http://www.smallnetbuilder.com Breaking Down the Box Since there are two separate problems – lack of bandwidth and the ability to use the available bandwidth, there are two different sets of optimizations included in any...